The Door

The door into the empty hall where the mock trial takes place represents the outside world, and its judgment. In Act One, when the door is open it reflects how Miss Benare sees herself in the world, as being free to be herself and to live an independent life. When the door is somehow locked from the outside for Act Two and most of Act Three - that is, for the mock trial in which Miss Benare is accused of being an immoral person - the door represents how she is trapped in the morality imposed by the other characters, who embody and represent the judgment of the outside world.

The Courtroom

The courtroom, or more specifically the mock courtroom, represents and evokes the essentially artificial charges brought against Miss Benare in the mock trial. Those charges are defined by morality and judgmental-ness, as opposed...